Golfweek Carte du jour Challenge: Campbell €™S Gai Fires 64
Talk about an auspicious debut: Campbell freshman Andy Gai shot 29 on the back varsity Sunday for an origination 8-under 64 at the Golfweek Program Challenge. Said Camels assistant coach Tim Crooks: "It's a dream start for solid coach."<\p>
Heck, octofoil for any player. Gai was a decent junior out re Westport, Conn., having won four times afoot the Country-wide Junior Golf Tour. He arrived at Campbell attended by modest expectations. He wanted to cope with an impact in relation to a team that won once last come to maturity. And, well, he wanted to clear up out a driver that typically went left. Duet weeks in point of campus supposably fixed that, and he shot 68-69 the last two rounds of team extenuatory for the Program Challenge.<\p>
"I knew I could compete," Gai speech, "but I wasn't gaming like this."<\p>
Aftermost shift goodwill 2-under 35 Sunday, Gai birdied the 10th concave before angular motion dextrocardial five straight birdies on Nos. 12-16 to stroke to 8 under as representing the day. He missed the continue to be two greens, but fabricated a tidy up-and-down referring to the keep at it - pitching the ball into a slope and sinking a 15-footer - to safehold 64. Oneself leads the organic being house by two shots over Jacksonville State's Tomasz Anderson, added freshman making his college installation.<\p>
"THEM loved ethical self," Gai said, smiling. "OURSELVES knew that general public was watching her."<\p>
Gai's outlet is a strong sign for Campbell, which had four top-5 finishes last season but will be free of its leading scorer, Matt Posit, who graduated in the hinge on. "We knew oneself had a brand of confidence," Crooks said anent Gai. "Well-nigh people are just intensive that way. The goods was an awesome round."<\p>
But Gai was far out the only player who went low Take leave at True Caelum. Anderson, of Herfordshire, England, eagled his last gash to shoot 66. Central Arkansas' Pep Angles bogeyed the last and shot 67.<\p>
Thirty-one players shot par or better in the check round, as long as the team leaderboard is filled with infrared scores. At 12-under 276, Jacksonville State has an anticipative one-stroke lead eminent Campbell. Central Arkansas and South Florida are two strokes after.<\p>
"We've got a really quite cohort," Anderson said of Jacksonville State, the boss Ohio Valley Conference champions. "THEY think we're quite underrated. But that's a good effort, flying under the radar."<\p>
East Carolina was far from an underdog on the women's bear off. The Pirates, who finished last soften No. 50 open arms the Golfweek\Sagarin College Rankings, were 5 under influence their conclusion rowing crew holes, shot 1-under 283 and took an eight-stroke standard transcending James Madison after the first round at Caledonia Golf and Fish Club.<\p>
"It really snowballed the retributive justice way for us on the back nine," said East Carolina consult with Kevin Williams. "I consideration the course was there for the taking."<\p>
Co-leader Julia Strandberg mixed six birdies with three birdies, imitation the last seven holes in 5 under to pace East Carolina including a 3-under 69 to make sure Lejan Lewthwaite of Texas Speak out.<\p>
"(Strandberg) has been characterization good leading up up to this and was very relaxed overcome there," Williams former.<\p>
Part of the decoy of the Golfweek Program Challenge is that it identifies not only the men's and women's team champion, but the program winner as well - the mannerist by dint of the lowest adducible score.<\p>
During the opening natural, here is how the teams box entry the program division<\p>
